Tara Singer

C. C’ville. Charlottesville.   I start out many days in Charlottesville (nicknamed “C’ville”), the home of the University of Virginia (Circle installation date – May 28, 1925), where I have family and proximity to an airport and train station.  This Wednesday was no different in that I left C’ville in the early morning hours and…

If you read my post last week, I mentioned that I was heading to Atlanta for an alumni, faculty, friend, and student reception on Tuesday, June 18th.  On Monday, Bobby Ann Stanton, our director of development and alumni engagement, and I loaded into my navy blue Volvo, put the magnetic Omicron Delta Kappa placard on…

I am pleased to annonce the appointment of Michael K. Bergler, CFRE, Executive Director of Constituent Relations at Concordia University Irvine (CA), as a member of ODK’s National Advisory Council (NAC). Mike was appointed by the Board of Directors during our regularly scheduled call this afternoon. He will assume the position vacated by Dr. Kathy…

My predecessors posted a weekly piece entitled “The Friday Letter.”  While I like the concept of posting on Fridays and at the end of a work week, I am taking the liberty to retitle this post as “Friday Fusion.”  So much of O∆K is the intersection of great ideas, the five phases of collegiate leadership,…

Today marks the completion of my first full week as the new Executive Director of Omicron Delta Kappa.  It is such an honor to serve our members and organization in this capacity.  In the last five days we have interviewed candidates for the Centennial Fellow position, confirmed the dates for the winter board meeting (January 10…

I’ve had the fortune (or misfortune) of sitting through a good number of commencement ceremonies in my career; both as the recipient of a degree and  as a member of the platform party and/or the marching/hooding faculty. Commencements at once serve as both the culmination of one’s academic course of study, while signaling the beginning…

It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. Kathy Smith as an At-Large Member of the Society’s Board of Directors. Dr. Smith’s appointment is effective May 1st. She will succeed COL Thomas Hiebert who is stepping down from the Board due to his military deployment abroad. The Board of Director’s approved Dr….